Windows7 Beta - SQL Developer causes Windows themes to be disabled

If there is already a solution to this issue, I'd love to hear about it.
When I start SQL Developer on Windows7 Beta x64, I get a notice that:
A program that you're running is incompatible with the Windows 7 themes. When this happens, some visual elements are automatically turned off. When the program is no longer running, the visual elements that were turned off are turned on again automatically.
The windows "themes" is the aero interface - I'm not sure if this is an issue with Vista or not (it has an aero interface too), I gave up on Vista almost immediately and have been running either XP (with no problems) or Windows7 Beta (only minor glitches).
Does anyone know if there a Java or other setting that addresses this issue?

Go to <sqldev install dir>\sqldeveloper\sqldeveloper\bin\sqldeveloper.conf and add the following line:
AddVMOption -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true
I recommend you dont change the theme from the default to something else like Windows, lots of graphical glitches/exceptions
Hope that helps.

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